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May I ask what the items in your enumerated list have to do with “policing words?”
by ohyoutravel 5y ago
May I ask what the items in your enumerated list have to do with “policing words?”
- john_moscow 5y agoThe items on the list are the problems relevant to most Americans. Except, the human brain has a limited capacity for "currently tracked" problems and tends to pick them proportionally to the amount of attention paid to them. So the media is abusing it by spamming people's attention with disproportionately exaggerated problems that don't cost the elites anything to solve, so that people won't have any time left solving the problems that would look bad on the corporate bottom line.
- zbrozek 5y agoHe's pointing out that focusing on issues that don't have real impact is starving us of our ability to focus on broader, more serious issues. The shrinking of the middle class is a tangible problem. Words being insufficiently inclusive is not.